I had to deal with this on a couple of machines at work. One NT machine and another 2000 machine. Its called the CWSHijack. Ill dig up the remove info for it.
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I got hit with the same thing this weekend. Cleaned it up with that shredder program, but one thing remains. They changed my wallpaper to an ad for some Evidence Eliminator program. It's a html file. I found it, deleted it and the images it called. Now I just have a white/gray flashing screen over my usual wallpaper picture.
Can't figure out where it's at so I can change it!
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A friendly suggestion - use firefox/ bird instead or better yet - opera. No more spyware, malware, viruses etc. Plus those browsers are faster than ie and they are highly customizable. What else could a webmaster want ?
Originally posted by SleazeQueen I got hit with the same thing this weekend. Cleaned it up with that shredder program, but one thing remains. They changed my wallpaper to an ad for some Evidence Eliminator program. It's a html file. I found it, deleted it and the images it called. Now I just have a white/gray flashing screen over my usual wallpaper picture.
Can't figure out where it's at so I can change it!
You have to disable the active desktop, but it has to be done via the registry. That's the spyware porngraph uses. Annoying as shit, I know.
internet explorer is such a open hole.. while i was checking gal submissions my IE was hijacked.. i installed alot of "anti spyware etc" software but they could remove it. the hijacker programm did not only set my default homepage to a local (on my hd) file (.dll) but also overwrite the IE .exe stored at my hd. i have seen alot of hijackers but this one was the most agressive.. no chance to remove it, as there was no programm out there able to do it.
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This has been a pest to me all week. I in the end formated both my machines I got them up and was almost ready to pick up from where I left off and bang I got it again - I realy pissed
Originally posted by Scootermuze Spy Sweeper Is a decent spyware removal program that records your home page.. and if it gets changed, S.S. will let you know and change it back.
Who are the ISEARCH motherfuckers anyway...I could kill those bastards
Originally posted by chowda yeah i just did it.
just that they fucked up my computer.. its kinda hard to trust it.
but it worked.
This same thing has happened to me 4 or 5 times. After trying everything for days I finally started looking around on the page and found a remove link. I've never run into a browser hi-jack search page that didn't have a remove link. They are hard to find but they are there. No one ever looks for these things. They always start with the spyware/adware stuff and reinstalling browsers. I'm sure people have reformatted their comps because of this when the solution is provided and right in front of them.
Originally posted by ListYourPorn This has been a pest to me all week. I in the end formated both my machines I got them up and was almost ready to pick up from where I left off and bang I got it again - I realy pissed
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